"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it." ~ George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist This is true for any decision, but perhaps especially for big life changes, including travel. I've been reading that so many of my fellow travelers have been given The Fear Talk by friends and family before they …
Quote: …what you would be
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
Quote: The world is good-natured…
The world is good-natured to people who are good natured. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Quote: Travel gives me…
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. ~ Jerzy Kosinski
Quote: A man must travel…
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.” ~ George Byron
Quote: To read a writer…
“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.” ~ André Gide (French Author — 1869 – 1951)
Quote: In order to discover…
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~ Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Writer
Quote: Life is no brief candle…
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
Quote: the purpose of travel…
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ~ Marshall McLuhan
Quote: Airplane travel…
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. ~ Al Gore
Quote: I travel for travel’s sake…
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote: Humor is an affirmation of dignity..
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer
Quote: …everything is possible.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. ~ Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist
Quote:…absurd and reckless aspirations
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. ~ Vauvenargues
Quote: Travel teaches toleration.
Travel teaches toleration. ~ Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881)
Quote: The World is a book…
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ Saint Augustine
Quote: Though we travel the world over…
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry…
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ~ Maya Angelou